@Bradders: Miller has gone to Blackpool. Heskey isn't going to score many but will set up an absolute hat full, as long as our midfielders or other strikers support him. Though, wages will rule him out. Simpson not sure about, more of a wide man. Hanson is a possibility and Smith will depend on who leeds bring in first! I personally would love to see Patrick Bamford from Chelsea.

Long shot...how about getting Marvin Sordell up front surely a bit of pace?or somebody like a Wildfred Zaha from a premiership club eager to learn their craft and get experience whilst helping us move up?

@paulsanders22: yeah good one mate Sordell had us done for racism and only just signed for a PREMIER LEAGUE club last month. Zaha will not drop down to our league let alone our club and we couldn't afford even a fraction of his wages. Think before you type (if you can).

@paulsanders22 Sordell has signed for Burnley - besides, I think there might be a bit of baggage there don't you?!
Blackpool are in a mess, Miller and the goalkeeper Alnwick were supposed to have agreed to sign on Tuesday, Alnwick has now gone to Peterborough and Miller still hasn't put pen to paper, there's talk of the Blackpool manager walking out as they still only have 8 players registered!
I think IH will definitely be looking to a Prem youngster/fringe player on loan if he can't make a permanent signing. I wouldn't mind Matt Smith but can't see it happening somehow.
Clearly Ollie has a list, so I suppose we'll just have to wait and see...

...thinking about the Blackpool situation makes me grateful for how well Millwall is being run, can you imagine how their fans are feeling right now? I wonder what the Blackpool equivalent of NAD looks like? I can't imagine they're too optimistic about next season somehow!

Briggs and a quality striker should mean top half for us next season i am loving the way things are now being done at Millwall top notch Berylson and Ollie, everything seems to be taking shape right through the whole club, including facilities hope some of the youth players get a look in, Harris and Co. seem to be well on the ball in that department Cant wait for it all to start.....BRING IT ON.

@lions2009:
Scott McDonald spent most of last season falling over and complaining.
I know that due to his height it wanted the ball at his feet but when he did get it to his feet he did nothing with it.
He also lacks pace and even Steve Morrison did a better job tackling back!!!
My opinion is based on watching most of the home games last season.
So he has a choice either he improves or he's gone.

@lions2009: With the new style of play, I think you could be correct 2009, if you really want to get slated agree with me as I think Josh Wright could have a very good season if he is given a run in the team.

@woodzymfc: good shout about Chris wood he isn't gonna get the nod over ulloa and vardy plus nugent on the bench and then leicester bidded 7 million for Troy deeney, we know he's a greedy c*** but scored a lot off goals for us to be fair!

Surely we can't let brentford do better business than us seeing they've got a lower budget and buying players like odubajo , hogan etc and now they are close to getting bamford , Ide love us to get someone like bamford or Mason or Wood or Lingard

I spoke to bircham the other day and he said attracting players to millwall is hard, we can't pay the wages other clubs can and most players don't like south East London. However I still remain optimistic and believe hollaway can work some sort of magic

Don't mind who he brings in...... it sounds like he has a couple of different options who have different styles.

Think we have the big lump that defenders are scared of (maybe)
we have the goal scorer....(32 goals in 38 games)
We have the speedy winger who is going whip it better then we have in the past(doesn't speak English)
So who else to bring in...???

Being in NZ I haven't seen many of the names being battered around on here but think a Young 18 - 20 year old prem player will be a good fit for to bolster the squad.

Cant wait for start of the season as more championship games being shown on TV this year....

With Fred and gueye we have good young pacey wingers. Gregory is a gamble but here's hoping he'll be quality. But we do need a decent striker up front. As for this Blackpool mess why don't we use it to our advantage and loan some s*** and youngsters there as they'll get games and gets them off the books?

I just had a quick look at the official site. There's pics from a training match played behind closed doors at The Den. To his credit, from the pictures at least, Fuller looks in excellent shape, scored a goal and if he stays fit will definitely be an asset. IH has a knack of getting that extra bit out of players, I think Taylor-Fletcher at Blackpool was a good example.
Also saw an interview with Scott McDonald who admitted that he didn't like the way IH wanted him to play when he arrived (just behind the front two) and pretty much admitted that Garvan was brought in to do the job instead. Says now that he's totally convinced by the new way of playing and enjoying it.
For all the players Lomas signed, it appears, for whatever reason, he didn't get anywhere near the best out of them, under IH the likes of McDonald, Chaplow, Bailey and Martin could be like new signings for us.
Still need that new striker though, last piece of the jigsaw - for now at least. We don't want to make the same mistake as Lomas and blow all of our limited budget in July and not be able to add or fine tune the squad through the season.

I think this is a tougher league this year in terms of depth - there might not be a Leicester that will dominate but there doesn't look like many weak teams - Blackpool maybe Rotherham - all the other teams have grounds to be a bit confident (perhaps not Leeds) it is a hard call this year - one of those years where consistency is very important - win those tight games - I hope as supporters we are patient - we have to let IH play a bit defensively - I think we have to squad to be solid - keep the goals down compared to last year - if we have to win 1-0 at home so be it

@timchimes: Great posts Tim, I'm feeling good about the season ahead - just it terms of organization if anything - because although we were in a relegation fight, a lot of the time it was down to fine margins. Ollie now has time to organize - and getting them playing his way, without some of the confusion which cost us games.
I'm with you on letting IH play more defensively - hopefully the attacking side of things will naturally come together, as he's more of an attack minded manager - but I think all of us would like us to be a side that is hard to beat and dogged defensively (plus, my ticker needs a break after last season!).
We need the opposition to feel worried - and know it's going to be tough day whenever they play us - it'd be nice to make the den a fortress again as well.. COYL.
p.s. nice to see leeds struggling!

Morison & today's performance
Now I am no massive fan of Morison, but what the f ook was he doing playing left midfield, he's a CF for gods sake. Wacky day is clueless and has no idea how to set a team up. Having said that Morison was ****e and was clearly not interested and was asking to be taken off. The abuse she was given by the. A fans standing at him was not good and I for one was stood there with a grimace as one of our own was tormented for all to hear.

I think we could be in real bother with only 2 weeks to Millwall, we have nothing, absolutely nothing up front and please god that Souleman fella does not play, he is not a footballer and ****e is doing him a favour.

I thought Brerardi looked a quality player and should start, and I would like to see Bianchi get more game time.

Other than that a right shower again with Chesterfield scoring from open play and playing good stuff and us relying on penalties to save face. Going forward we offered nothing

I've just seen that Crewe striker Mathias Pogba was withdrawn from their friendly at Wolves because of interest from an unnamed club. Don't know much about him but can imagine that if we do sign a striker it will be a bit out of the blue like this as I think IH likes to play the media and set up a few smoke screens that allow him to do the real deals in private. Not saying it's us signing Pogba, just made me think.

@mervpayne: When I saw this I was thinking exactly the same. He is 23 and 6ft 3inches tall and a regular scorer in the lower divisions. Unfortunately when I tried to get further information it is apparently an overseas club who are interested in him.

@southstandview: I too would be happy with mid table and not spending all the season in a relegation fight like we have for the last 2 years. Like you say lack of goals is going to be our main problem unless IH signs a more prolific striker than the ones we already have before the start of the season. Although Gregory might surprise us by bringing his goal scoring record into the Championship.

I hear we're interested in mumba mpommybenga from vp brondenberg in sweden , he scored 700 goals in swaziland but had an argument with his manager, since then he's played 3 games in sweden in the last 16 years, ive seen a video of him he looks good, scored from 40 yards with the back of his head .